Environmental Design Library @ UC Berkeley

Architecture Indexes & Abstracts

Use this list below of 50+ periodical indexes to locate articles on architecture, architectural history, construction, building technology, landscape architecture, interior design, and urban design and planning. For more information contact reference staff in the Environmental Design Library. Current UC Berkeley faculty, registered students, and staff who need off-campus access should login via the Library's proxy service.

• TOP FOUR ARCHITECTURE INDEXES
• List of architecture indexes: A, B, C, D, E-G, I, J, L, N, P, S-W

Additional links:
• RESEARCH GUIDES for more specialized architecture indexes.
• ELECTRONIC RESOURCES for the UCB Library list of indexes in other fields.
• NEWSPAPER INDEXES
• Use to locate journals in the UC Libraries or use the UC e-Links Citation Linker.

Content reviewed: Compiled by Elizabeth Douthitt Byrne and Susan Koskinen.

Top Four Architecture Indexes

List of architecture indexes: A, B, C, D, E-G, I, J, L, N, P, S-W

• Academic Search Complete via EbscoHost UCB Only - some full text
  A multidisciplinary index to articles in more than 10,900 journals and other publications in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese; full-text is available for over 5300 journals.
  Online: 1865-present
• ACSA Conference Proceedings Index
  Searchable index of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture conference proceedings. Provides author, title, and full-text searches of proceedings from Annual Meeting, International Conference, and Technology Conference proceedings. The database is open to the public but ACSA members can log in to access the downloadable PDFs.
https://www.acsa-arch.org/resources/proceedings/indexsearch.aspx
• Alternative Press Index Online via FirstSearch/OCLC UCB Only - some full text
  Indexes 380 alternative, radical, and left publications, most of which not indexed elsewhere. Useful for identifying alternative public policy perspectives on housing, land use, the environment, and other architecture issues outside the mainstream.
Online: 1991-present. Print: Main Stack HM101 A12 A55
• America: History and Life UCB Only - citations and abstracts only
  Contains bibliographic citations and abstracts for articles and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present. A good source for social and cultural histories of architecture and building types. Includes book reviews.
Online: 1964-present. Print: Info Center. E3 .A43, 1954-present
• America's Newspapers UCB Only
  Complete full-text content of local and regional news from over 300 US newspapers. Includes titles not in Lexis/Nexis Academic like San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee.
Coverage varies according to newspaper.
• American Periodicals Series Online, 1740-1900, via Proquest UCB Only - some full text
  Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Published between 1741 and 1900, the 1,000+ titles include Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals, and several popular magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair, Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal.
Online: 1740-1900
• Applied Science and Technology Index via SilverPlatter UCB Only - some full text | Guide
  Cites articles in 390+CU.S. English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes trade and industrial publications, journals from professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, including architecture.
Online: 1983-present. Print: Engi T1.I3 1913-1916, 1918-1993
• Architect and Engineer. Index
  Vol. 1-95, 1905-1928. Partial subject index of SF based publication. Includes listings by city and building, and name of architect. Journals have same call number and are shelved in bound periodicals.
Print: EnvDesign NA1 A64 Index
Architect & Engineer Index PDF (6MB)
• Architectural Index - citations only UCB Only
  Architectural Index is an annual subject index to 10 U.S. professional architecture, building, and landscape architecture magazines.
EnvDesign NA8.A7 Index, 1950-1996
• Architectural publications index (API) periodicals indexed and books catalogued by the British Architectural Library. London: Published for the British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects by RIBA publications, c1995.
  API is a quarterly publication with an annual cumulation that includes a series and special issues index as well as names, subject headings, topographical and building names index. Continues: Architectural periodicals index (1972-1994).
EnvDesign NA8.A73 Index. Library has: 23(1995)-present
• API Online via RIBA British Architectural Library online catalogue - RIBA British Architectural Library
  The RIBA Library online catalogue is a free index to books, articles from 300+ periodicals in 20 languages, and records of drawings, photos, and manuscripts in the British Architectural Library catalogued or indexes since the 1980's. Covers 300+ journals from 45 countries on architecture and allied arts, construction, design, landscape, and to a limited extent, planning and urban history. Excludes book reviews. To limit to articles only, select ARTICLES under "Search Limits." Index Search Terms can be found in its thesaurus, Architectural Keywords
EnvDesign Index NA31.A77
http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/webcat
Online: 1984-present
• Art Full Text via WilsonWeb UCB Only - some full text, images in PDF format only
  Indexes articles in art and related fields, including architecture, art history, city planning, urban design, and landscape architecture. Includes book reviews.The Art Full Text component of the Art Index (1929-present) offers full text (with images) for approximately 20% of the journals from 1997 to present. There are approximately 460 journal titles currently indexed. The citations found in this index also include abstracts from 1994 to the present.
Online: 1984-present.
Print: EnvDesign N18 A72 Indexes, 1929-95
• Art Index Retrospective via WilsonWeb UCB Only - citations only, some abstracts
  Bibliographic database that cumulates citations to in-print Art Index vols 1-32 published 1929-1984. It covers the fields of archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, design, landscape architecture, museology, and more. Includes book reviews.
Online: 1929-1984.
Print: 1929-1984; EnvDesign N18 A72 Indexes
• ARTbibliographies Modern via CSA UCB Only - citations only, some abstracts
  Indexes and abstracts books, serials, theses, and exhibition catalogs on modern and contemporary art, design and photography. After 1988 architecture coverage limited to broad design aspects.
Online:1974-present.
Print: Main Info Center N1.A1.L2 Period. Indexes, 1971-95.
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index via ISI Web of Knowledge UCB Only
  Part of the Web of Science, Indexes 1,100+ leading journals in arts and humanities, providing citations for articles and book reviews. Full Search, Cited Reference Searching includes all the cited references (footnotes) of each article it covers and can be used to look up a reference to a work the user has identified as helpful, and identify other articles citing that work, thus retrieving related articles. allows you to create a "Citation Alert" so you are notified by e-mail when another article cites one you have found helpful.
Online: 1975-present.
Print: 1976-present. Main Stacks AJ3.A7
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals via CSA UCB Only - citations and abstracts only | Online tutorial
  The Avery Index is the primary and most comprehensive periodical article index for architecture and all aspects of environmental design. It indexes 2500+ scholarly and professional journals from all over the world in the subjects of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Article citations from the 1990's on contain brief abstracts. Incorporates the Burnham Index (see below) and includes obituaries and book reviews. Early volumes have only minimal coverage of the West Coast. Allows sorting by date, EndNote exporting and Limiting by type of illustration.
Online: Selected coverage from the 1860s-present, weekly updates.
Print: 1890-1993, EnvDesign fNA8.C64 Indexes v. 1-15, 1890-1972; Sup v. 1-14, 1973-1993 Index

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• BHA - Bibliography of the History of Art
  One of the most comprehensive art history index/bibliography available. Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present, and indexes and abstracts art related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from 2,500+ periodicals. Print edition includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973-1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975-1989. Especially strong in historiography, area and cultural studies, and critical theory.
Online: 1990-2009. Print: 1973-present Main Stacks N1.R15 Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie.
Art History/Classics N18.R4 Reference, 1910-1989// RILA, Main Stacks N1.R15, 1975(1)-1989(15:1-2)//
• Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) UCB Only - citations only
  Contains 519,000+ records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. For best results browse by country and broad subject categories.
Online: 1971-present
• Bibliographie zur Architektur im 19. Jahrhundert
  8-volumeindex of German language architectural periodical literature focuses on German and central European architecture 1789-1918. Volume 8 includes indexes by architect, author and place. Each volume has tables of contents with subject terms in German and English. A list of journals indexed appears in volume 1.
EnvDesign NA645.A12.B5 Reference
• Burnham Index to Architectural Literature UCB Only
  Indexes books and 200+ periodicals 1919-1965 from the Burnham Library of Architecture, Art Institute of Chicago. Better coverage of California than the Avery Index for the early part of the 20th century. Now incorporated into the Avery Index.
EnvDesign fNA705.A12.B87 1989 Index
• Business Source Complete via EBSCO - UCB Only
  Includes full-text for 7,400+ scholarly business journals and other sources, including 1,100+ peer-reviewed business publications, as well as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch.
Coverage: 1965-present
• Compendex- via EV (Elsevier) UCB Only - citations, abstracts, full text with UC-elinks | Guide
  Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database. Contains 8+ million records and references 5,000+ international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications. Updated weekly.
Online: 1969-present + Backfiles: 1884-present
Print: Engineering Index (Engi T1.E5 1892-1905; T1.E51 1906-1995, Abstracts).
• Construction Index
  Published by Architext. An annotated index on building design and construction. Indexes 50 professional journals using the CSI Masterformat classification scheme. A supplement provides an alphabetical cross reference from CSI classification numbers to subject headings.
EnvDesign TH1.C66 Index; 1987- 1997
• CuminCAD, Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design
  A cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It includes bibliographic information for more than 10,000 records from journals and conferences such as ACADIA, ASCAAD, CAADRIA, eCAADe, SiGraDi, CAAD futures, DDSS and others. All papers include full abstracts. Full texts, in PDF, of some 7,200 papers are also available (requires a login and password). A separate index of some 1,400 papers in Spanish language are maintained. Published papers relating to building performance may be retrieved directly from the IBPSA-website. To access full text materials, UCB users must contact the Environmental Design Library reference desk for the login and password.
http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Home/
• Design & Applied Arts Index
  Indexes 150+ journals covering design, including graphic design, interior design, illustration, architecture, environmental design, ergonomics, etc.
EnvDesign NK1160.D476 Index, 1987-1997
• Ekistic index of periodicals
  Published by Athens Technological Organization, Athens Center of Ekistics. Selectively reviews 700+ worldwide journals annually, and regularly indexes 100 in a classification scheme that focuses on human settlements. Search by author, broad subject category, or place. Especially good for human settlements, housing and architecture in developing countries.
EnvDesign HT65.A12.E4 Index. 1968-present
• Environmental Design Research Association Conference Proceedings, Cumulative Index. Environmental Design Research Association. Washington, D.C. Indexes papers presented at their conferences.
EnvDesign TH6021.A1E65.E14 1-28, 1969-1997
• Factiva UCB Only
  Provides general and business news and information from more than 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and news wires. Excellent coverage of construction and building, and business aspects of architecture and design.
• Geography via Ovid UCB Only
  Covers international literature in physical, human geography, regional community planning, etc., and aspects of architecture. Access to information 2000+ journals, monographs, books, conference proceedings reports, and theses.
Online: 1990-present
Print: in part: Geographical abstracts. Human geography, EnvDesign HT390 G41 1986-1988 Index; Eart G57 G464 1989-present, and International Development Abstracts, Main Stack HD82 I38 1982-1997

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• Index to Historic Preservation Periodicals (http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/NTL/catdat.html)
  Published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation Library. Volume 1 covers 1979-1987, and supplement covers 1987-1990. It indexes 325 preservation magazines, including local publications such as Oakland Heritage Alliance News, BAHA News, Heritage Newsletter (San Francisco's Architectural Heritage) and California Preservation (appears to be several years behind in indexing California titles). Use their general broad subject categories or geographic locations to search.
Online: 1979-present
Print: EnvDesign Z1251.A2.U51.1992 Index
• Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals via Eureka/RLG UCB Only
  Indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, provides nearly complete coverage of journals from this period. Offers information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting.
Online: Print: Main DREF N6510.S35 1999 2 vols.
• Index to the Architect and Engineer, volume 1-95, 1905-1928
  Compiled by Gary A. Goss, California Historical Society, 1982. San Francisco. Partial index by subject, location and designer to this San Francisco based architecture journal. Indexing for volumes from 1930 included in Art Index.
EnvDesign NA1.A64 Indexes
• InformeDesign is a clearinghouse for design and human behavior research, a collaboration between the American Society of Interior Designers and the University of Minnesota. They produce a searchable database of research summaries in "practitioner-friendly" language that includes research-based design criteria as part of their interpretation of original research articles and reports with the aim of bringing research to practice and positively influencing the design of the built environment. The database "indexes" 100 refereed journals from about 2000 to the present. Acess is free, but registration is recommended.
http://www.informedesign.org/
• IngentaConnect UCB Only - full text and images (see note below)
  Provides full-text access to domestic, international scholarly & academic publications, in range of subject areas.
Full-text articles are available only for journals for which U.C. Berkeley has paper subscriptions
• International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property. Library. Subject index.
  Subject index to their List of Acquisitions (books and journal articles) of the ICROM Library in Rome. Entries under each subject heading refer to citations in List of Acquisitions (EnvDesign Z810.I57.I57 Index, 1977/78-1991). Focus on preservation and conservation.
EnvDesign Z810.I57.I572 Index, 1977/78-1988/89
• Journal of Planning Literature via IngentaSelect UCB Only
  Indexes 400 journals, plus books and dissertations and provides comprehensive coverage of city and regional planning literature, but also includes some architecture, and urban design. Also includes CPL Bibliographies and many book reviews.
Online ed.: 2000-present
Print: 1985/86-present; EnvDesign NA9000 J687 Index
• Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, index volumes I-XX, 1941-1961
  Compiled by Shirley P. Branner. SAH, 1974. Comprehensive index to every article, book review, letter. Duplicates some coverage in Art Index and Avery Index. Back issues of JSAH are available full-text via JSTOR UCB Only
EnvDesign NA11.A83 Indexes
• JSTOR UCB Only - full text
  A full text archive of interdisciplinary scholarly journal literature. A list of included journals by discipline is available. Includes Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, APT Bulletin, Assemblage, Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of Design History, and Winterthur Portfolio.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic UCB Only - full text and abstracts
  Contains full text and abstracts of general news, business, and legal information and provides full-text access to 6,000+ individual titles. Wide geographic coverage. Major newspapers from 1980-present. Updated daily for most papers.
Online: Recent 20 years.
• The new Craftsman index, an annotated chronology, subject and author index of Gustav Stickley's The Craftsman, 1901-1916.
  Compiled by Marilyn Fish. Lambertville, NJ: Arts and Crafts Quarterly Press, 1997. Indexes The Craftsman (EnvDesign Rare N1.C87), which is also indexed in a CD-ROM version available in the Environmental Design Library.
EnvDesign N1.C87.F57 1997 Index
• Newspaper and Periodical Indexes for California
  List of indexes of California newspapers and periodicals available in microfilm in the Doe Library Newspapers & Microfilm Room, and/or the Bancroft Library.
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/newsindexes.html
• NTRL (National Technical Reports Library)
  NTRL is the gateway to indexes, abstracts, and technical reports of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Especially good for construction and related technical architectural information. Indexes and archives US government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information from 1964 to present. Central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio-visual products from Federal sources. Information from other international government departments and organizations including those from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union, Western and Eastern European countries is also available. Some full text.

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• PAIS International via CSA UCB Only - some full text
  Public Affairs Information Service, 1928-present. Covers books, pamphlets, periodicals, and government reports, including many in the fields of business, economics and government regulation of industry. Good for public policy issues in architecture.
Online: 1937-present.
Print: Main Stacks H106.P7 and .P72, 1915-1995
• PapersFirst via FirstSearch/OCLC. UCB Only
  Indexes580,000 citations for papers presented at worldwide conferences, symposia, meetings, expositions, congresses, and workshops received at The British Library.
Online: 1993-present.
• Periodicals Index Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index) UCB Only - some full text
  Index to articles published in thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences selectively from 1770-1995. Search Journal Details for a list of journals and dates covered. Includes book reviews. Scope is international, including journals in English and Western Languages. Select "Search articles" and search by authro or keyword(s) in title. Limit to journal categories (Art, Architecture, Geography, History, American, Humanities, etc.) by selecting "Journal Subject."
Online: selectively 1770-1995.
• Poole's Plus, the Digital Index of the Nineteenth Century 1802-1906 UCB Only
  Subject index to 479 American and English periodicals from 1802-1906. Enlarges W.F. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906, adding dozens of indices to Periodicals, Books, Newspapers and Government Documents.
Online: 1802-1906.
Print: Moffitt Reference, Doe Reference, Periodical Indexes AI3.P7.
• Proceedings via FirstSearch/OCLC UCB Only
  Use to retrieve records for worldwide conferences, symposia, meetings, expositions, and congresses. The proceedings cover a variety of disciplines, including the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Physical and Life Sciences. Each proceedings provides a list of papers presented. Individual records for each paper may be found in the PapersFirst database. The database covers published proceedings received by the British Library Document Supply Center.
Online: 1993-present
• Readers Guide Retrospective 1890 -1982 via WilsonWeb UCB Only
  Includes articles in all subjects from 500+ American general and popular periodicals from 1890-1982. Good sources for book reviews and popular architecture.
Online: 1963-1982.
Print: Doe Reference Indexes AJ3.R4, AJ3.R39.
• Reference guide to homebuilding articles. Washington, D.C.: National Association of Home Builders of the United States.
  Indexes 375 journals on architecture, building, construction, housing and real estate. Previous title Homes and Homebuilding.
EnvDesign HD7293.A12N28.H6 Index. 1968-1995
• Research Library (ProQuest) UCB Only
  Indexes 2,500+ magazine and journals on art, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and sciences. Interfaces available for many languages. Some full text and allows limit peer-reviewed articles.
Online: 1971-present
• Science Citation Index Expanded via ISI Web of knowledge UCB Only
  Part of Web of Science, indexes 5,300 journals in 164 disciplines in the sciences, providing citations for articles and book reviews. Full Search, Cited Reference Searching includes all the cited references (footnotes) of each article it covers and can be used to look up a reference to a work the user has identified as helpful, and identify other articles citing that work, thus retrieving related articles. Allows you to create a "Citation Alert" so you are notified by e-mail when another article cites one you have found helpful.
Online: 1900-present.
Print: Bioscience Q151.A12.S35 Index Area, 1961-present
• Social Sciences Citation Index via ISI Web of Knowledge UCB Only
  Part of Web of Science, indexes 1700+ journals in 50 disciplines in the social sciences, providing citations for articles and book reviews. Full Search, Cited Reference Searching includes all the cited references (footnotes) of each article it covers and can be used to look up a reference to a work the user has identified as helpful, and identify other articles citing that work, thus retrieving related articles. Allows you to create a "Citation Alert" so you are notified by e-mail when another article cites one you have found helpful.
Online: 1956-present.
Print: Doe Stack H71.A12.S6, 1956-present
• Sociological Abstracts via CSA UCB Only
  Citations for articles 1,900+ journals, books, book chapters, and reviews in the social sciences. Topics covered include anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law, social psychology, sociology, and urban development.
Online: 1963-present.
Print: Main Stack HM15.5.S6, 1952-66, 68-96
• Web of Knowledge UCB Only
  Science Citation Index, Online: 1900-present, Social Science Citation Index, Online: 1956-present, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Online: 1975-present.

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